Amazon Lily plant

Amazon Lily

Originating in Columbia, the amazon lily thrives in warm temperatures and is noted for the white brilliant blooms.

Amazon Lily - Eucharis grandiflora, belong to the genus Eucharis. Genus Eucharis contains 15-20 species in the family Amaryllidaceae, native to Central and South America. Amazon lily flower resemble daffodil flowers and are sweetly scented, and borne in groups of four.

The bulbous Amazon lily is a low growing bulb producing star shaped clusters of white flowers held high above the plant. Each cluster contains 3-6 fragrant flowers. Amazon lily flowers are very showy, leaves are large and spectacular. The large showy Amazon Lily white flowers are borne in an umbel of three to ten on an erect scape 40-80 cm long. The flowers are beautiful in having a prominent corona, which is sometimes tinged with green.

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Aster alpinus

This hardy perennial produces an abundance of flowers in shades of violet pink, and white. The Alpine Aster is ideal for rock or alpine gardens and is great for cutting. 3-10" tall.

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Alpinia, besides having attractive flowers, is a very beautiful foliage plant, the leaves of which are excellent for cut flower arrangements. It is the National flower of Samoa.

Alpinias are very showy and fragrant flowers, which are botanically an inflorescence forming a gigantic ball of flowers. Alpinia can be found in colors from light pinks to deep reds. Alpinias are originally from Malaya, and found throughout the tropical Pacific region.

Alpinia or Tahitian Ginger has tubular flowers in droopy clusters. Alpinia plant does not produce flowers for the first 3 years, but when they grow, they show huge football sized flowers, blooming all year around.

Varieties of alpinia include Alpinia Purpurata (Red), Alpinia Purpurata (Pink), Alpinia Purpurata “Jungle King” (Red), Alpinia Purpurata “Jungle Queen” (Pink), Alpinia Purpurata “Kimi Ginger”, Alpinia Purpurata “Tomi Pink”, Alpinia Zerumbet, Alpinia Coerulea “Blue Berry Ginger”, “Hanging Pink”, etc.

African tulip

African tulip flowers give a very brilliant color because of which when the African Tulip tree is in full bloom, it is a showstopper.

Spathodea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants - with a single species, Spathodea campanulata, commonly known as the African tulip tree or Fountain tree or Flame-of-the-forest. African tulips are open and branched, evergreen trees of African forests.

African Moon plant

The African Moon plant is often grown in parks and gardens as an ornamental since the bright white daisy flowers form a dazzling mass during the spring.

Dimorphotheca pluvialis, the African Moon are the white daisy flowers, native of Namibia. African Moon flowers are also commonly called as Oxeye daisy, Rain Daisy, Cape Daisy, Witbotterblom. African Moon is cultivated as field crop for oil seed production particularly in Northern Europe.

African Moon flowers are about 2 1/2 inches in diameter. The species Dimorphotheca pluvialis is characterized by hermaphrodite disc florets and female-fertile (male-sterile) ray florets. Both types of florets produce distinctly different types of seeds (achenes). Seeds produced by ray florets are small, angular, while those of the disc florets are flattened and have winged margins. The ray florets have one large white petal, which is often colored purple at the bas

Tropical flowers

Tropical flowers hold a special place in the hearts of flower lovers due to their breathtaking fragrance and exquisite beauty. Orchids, Rhizomes, Gingers, Heliconias etc., which are more popular with the flower lovers are Tropical Flowers.Tropical Flowers are those that thrive naturally in tropical climatic conditions.

All the tropical flowers happen to be alien for other geographic regions of the world viz., Temperate and Polar regions where they are referred to as Exotic Flowers. All tropical flowers are thus exotic to the Americas and Europe. But not necessarily all exotic flowers are tropical flowers.

The tropics are the geographic region of the Earth centered on the equator and limited in latitude by the two tropics: the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere. Tropical Flowers are those species of flowers that are native to the tropics. The principal regions with a tropical climate are the Amazon Basin in Brazil, the Congo Basin in West Africa and Indonesia. The buzz word in the world of flowers, the Hawaiian tropical flowerscome from this core tropical region. Besides, India, southern China, etc., also fall under the tropical region.